Mohammed Zubair, co-founder of fact-checking website AltNews, pointed out that the distinct starfish design was that of the Daxing International Airport in the Chinese capital. The video shared by him was originally tweeted by BloombergQuint, after the airport in Beijing was inaugurated in 2019.This image was also carried by The Guardian in an article on China in 2019. The image of the airport was also shared on a London-based architecture magazine, Da Zeen, published in 2015. The caption read, “Zaha Hadid unveils designs for “world’s largest airport passenger terminal” in Beijing.”The Noida airport, spread over more than 1,300 hectares, will be Asia’s biggest, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia had said on Wednesday, according to ANI. It will have a capacity to serve around 1.2 crore passengers in a year.Several BJP leaders and ministers have been called out by China’s state-run Global Television Network (CGTN) for passing off images of the Beijing Daxing International Airport as the model for the upcoming Jewar airport in Noida.
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